Love Brewing Competition Winner's Review

[Dyke Busters]

Hello everyone,
I was the lucky winner of the Love Brewing Competition and I thought that I would do a quick review of the prize.
I chose the Export Bohemian Pils. The information on the paperwork is outstanding explaining everything you need to do in simple English so that anyone can pick up this kit and start straight away. This kit is a bargain at the price its being sold for I would have expected to pay £25-30 for it.
What do you get?
Well let's go through the box.
Muntons connoisseur range beer kit.
1.2kg liquid malt extract (light).
150g priming sugar.
A reusable hop bag.
50g Cascade hops.
And a freebie set of beer mats.
How did brew day go?
Apart from a few hiccups like spilling lots of water all over the floor everything went well. I never measure out the exact amount of water required I like to add as much water as my fermentation bin will allow, mainly because I don't particularly like a strong beer and when I do have a drink I like to have a few. So the 5% ABV is a little over expectant with this brew. Gravity reading is 1032 and at a guesstimate I think it will turn out around 3%.
All in all very impressed, looking forward to bottling it and tasting.

 

[YeastFace]

Nice one. I was the other winner and will be brewing mine and posting a review mid-week. I don't remember seeing any beer mats though!

 

[Rwilts]

@Dyke Busters how big is your fermenter? You would have to have watered it down a fair bit to get from the expected ABV of %5 to 3!,

 

[Dyke Busters]

@Dyke Busters how big is your fermenter? You would have to have watered it down a fair bit to get from the expected ABV of %5 to 3!,

I can honestly say I have not measured it,but I do get a few extra bottles than I would when I first started brewing and followed the instructions rigorously

 

[Rwilts]

I also don't worry too much about volumes and ABV, I follow the recipe but if I get more beer at a slightly lower ABV I am not complaining

 

[Dyke Busters]

Nice one. I was the other winner and will be brewing mine and posting a review mid-week. I don't remember seeing any beer mats though!

Might as well put your review on this one rather than make a new thread

 

[THBF]

Thank you for posting this so the other members will know what a good kit it is.

 

[Dyke Busters]

Still quite young, a very palatable taste.
But it's probably the last time I let my daughter help with the bottling by having her add the priming sugar. She does go from one extreme to the other.